Morton Masius

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Morton Masius (born October 6, 1883 in Egg Harbor City , New Jersey , † November 1, 1979 in New Haven , Connecticut ) was a German - American physical chemist .

Life

Masius was born in 1883 as the son of Alfred Masius and his wife Edith, b. Bailey, born in Egg Harbor City. His grandfather was the education professor Hermann Masius . He attended the humanistic Thomas School in Leipzig until 1902 . After graduation, he studied chemistry at the University of Leipzig and was established in 1908 when Herbert Freundlich with a thesis in Physical Chemistry for Dr. phil. PhD. In 1910 he married Paula Marie Wagner, daughter of a wealthy Leipzig family, in Leipzig.

From 1908 to 1909 he was a Whiting Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 1909 he worked at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester , Massachusetts, where he was professor of physics in 1919 . Later he was dean of the physics department. In 1954 he retired. He achieved particular importance through his legitimized translation of Planck's lectures on the theory of thermal radiation .

Masius was a fellow of the American Physical Society . He was also a member of the American Association of Physics Teachers and the Society for Freedom in Science .

Fonts (selection)

  • Via adsorption in mixtures . Noske, Leipzig 1908. (= also dissertation, University of Leipzig)
  • Max Planck : The Theory of Heat Radiation . P. Blakiston's Son and Co, Philadelphia 1914. (translated into English)
  • Problems in General Physics for College Courses . P. Blakiston's Son and Co, Philadelphia 1917.
  • Louis Rougier : Philosophy and the New Physics. An Essay on the Relativity Theory and the Theory of Quanta , P. Blakiston's Son and Co, Philadelphia 1921. (translated into English)
  • College physics . Longmans, Green and Co, New York 1941. (with Alexander W. Duff)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Sachse , Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomasschule in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912 . BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 105.
personal data
SURNAME Masius, Morton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American physical chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Egg Harbor City , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1979
Place of death New Haven , Connecticut